lumberjacks Pining for a history lesson? How and why the White Pine became Michigan’s official state tree By Stateside Staff • Dec 10, 2020 Michigan Department of Natural Resources Listen Listening... / 7:56 Stateside's conversation with Hillary Pine Book chronicles the Upper Midwest’s forgotten legacy of lumberjack songs By Stateside Staff • Apr 6, 2018 University of Wisconsin Press Listen Listening... / 14:32 Stateside's conversation with Gretchen Dykstra Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota were rich hunting grounds for a young man in the early part of the 20th century. He wasn’t hunting game. He was in search of lumberjack songs.